Hamid Karzai, the president, said he would convene a loya jirga, a formal conclave of tribal elders, to discuss sensitive questions raised by America's plan to withdraw its forces by 2014.

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Because studies show that one of the most sensitive questions for detecting depression in someone is simply to ask him or her if they've been feeling very stressed out over the last couple of weeks.

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Aside from the technical questions, this approach has consequences pertaining to the sensitive topic of Net neutrality.

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This gives rise to such questions as: How media institutions can effectively assess their gender sensitive responsiveness and how civil society can, in turn, evaluate this responsiveness?

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That the European Commission is defending European firms' right to offer online gambling, even as some countries try to ban it, raises difficult questions about individual states' ability to override the single market in sensitive areas.

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The latest attack has, once again, raised questions about the strength of security employed by Sony and other companies holding sensitive user data.

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It could transform the relationship between students and university staff - and it raises wider questions about whether students are equipped to be savvy consumers in a price-sensitive market.

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His concerns centred mostly on questions about the selection of data sets and the need for studies that showed how sensitive the results were to different selections of data.

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